BECOMING A BLESSING
Every day brings new possibilities. Lord, what do you ask of me in the next 24 hours? How can I be a blessing today?
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2020
LOOKING BEYOND OURSELVES
God is inviting me, all of us, to slow down and care for more than what’s around us. He is inviting us to make sacrifices, check in on our family and friends.
MARY’S YES
It was the offering of that hurt into His hands that would give me the healing I so anxiously prayed for. All I had to do was trust in God as Mary did.
GOD IS WITHIN HER
God is my stronghold, not only when I feel the presence of God, but also because God is within.
BELIEVE
Like the royal official believed that Jesus would heal his dying son, Jesus invites us to believe in His promise of life.
CHECKING IN
Perhaps now is the time to really check in with each other, to extend love, and to learn how God’s love can reach across miles and through our quarantined walls.
FATHERS OF FAITH
We wait in hope. We wait amidst uncertainty. We wait for a healthy, safe future.
TEACHING YOU TO OBSERVE
Grace, I have learned, is more present in imperfection than in perfection because that is when we are still teachable.
FORGIVENESS FROM THE HEART
Forgiveness from the heart is the heart of Christian discipleship.
ENOUGH GRACE
Despite my tendency to look for God in the dramatic or the remarkable, I experience grace more often in ordinary, hidden, humdrum ways.
BECOMING THE BODY OF CHRIST
How might I be the Body of Christ for whomever I am in contact or communication with in the coming days?
THE PARABLE OF THE DUTIFUL SON
The father wrapped an arm around his son’s shoulders and gestured toward the celebration in the house, pleading, “Won’t you join us?”
HOPE
The only sliver of hope I had left is that I held tightly onto God and the hope that God would provide, and I just needed to trust Him and trust myself and to be patient.
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO IN QUARANTINE?
How can we prepare for unknown hardships without despairing and giving into the false spirit?
ONE MOMENT CLOSER TO COMING HOME
Lent is about coming home. It’s when somehow, someway the path to God appears before each of my footsteps one at a time.
DESERT OF MY OWN DESIGN
Rather than shouldering everything, I desire to ask Him to join me with each step, no matter how heavy or light my burden may be.
PERFECT LOVE
The invitation to participate in God’s perfect love is challenging but is never done alone. God loves through us if we allow him.
SALVATION
There is solace in Jesus’s promise of a salvation that transcends any evil that may beset us.